Douglas Barnard

Douglas C. Barnard has been the chief legal officer of CF Industries, an S&P 500 agrichemical company, since 2004. During his tenure with CF Industries, Mr. Barnard represented the company in its $750M initial public offering, its $5B acquisition of a competitor following a four-way, fifteen-month takeover battle, its $1.4B divestiture of a business segment, and its recently announced and then withdrawn potential $28B cross-border merger of equals with a European competitor. Previously, he was a general counsel of Bcom3 Group, representing the company in its €3B sale to a European competitor; chief legal officer of LifeStyle Furnishings Int’l, representing the company in its $1B leveraged buyout; and a partner representing private equity clients at Kirkland & Ellis. Mr. Barnard holds a B.S. in physics from M.I.T. (1979), a J.D. from the University of Minnesota (1982 with honors), and an MBA in finance and accounting from Chicago Booth (1998 with high honors). He is also a member of the M.I.T. Corporation Development Committee.

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Geoffrey R. StoneInterim Dean and Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law

Tom GinsburgDeputy Dean and Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, and Professor of Political Science